While the end of the year and another gardening season is a good time (before you forget) to make notes and take stock on this year’s successes, as well as failures (always a great way to learn), it is also a good time to highlight some of our gardening tips from this past year notes Leonard Perry.

California's iconic trees, the giant sequoias, may sail through the state's current extreme drought. The huge trees survived even drier conditions during their long lives, studies show. The oldest sequoias live for more than 3,000 years.